Shira Ivrit/ Poesie hebraique
Poeme de Nathan Zach ( en hebreu)
Give Me What the Tree Has
Give me what the tree has and what it won’t lose
and give me the power to lose what the tree has.
The faint tracings the wind makes in the darkness of a summer night
and the darkness which has neither trace nor shape.
Give me the shapes I once had and have no more
the strength to think that they’ve been lost. Give me
an eye stronger than what it sees and a hand
harder than what it seeks. Let me inherit
you without receiving anything that’s not past
the moment I receive it. Give me the power to come near,
without fear, precisely to what I’m not meant
to hold dear, let me come near.
et le plus beau de ses poemes:
For is the tree of the field a man whom comes in siege before you.
Song by Israeli singer Yehudit Ravitz, based on Nathan Zach’s poem
and on the verse in Deuteronomy 20:19 (translation by Ariel Brosh).
Because the man is the tree of the field;
Like the tree the man grows up.
Like the the man, the tree also gets uprooted,
And I surely do not know
where I have been and where I will be,
like the tree of the field.
Because the man is the tree of the field;
Like the tree he aspires upwards.
Like the man, he gets burnt in fire,
And I surely do not know
where I have been and where will I be,
like the tree of the field.
Because the man is the tree of the field;
Like the tree he is thirsty to water.
Like the man, thirsty he remains,
And I surely do not know
where I have been and where will I be,
like the tree of the field.
I’ve loved, and I’ve hated;
I’ve tasted both this and that;
I was buried in a plot of land;
And it’s bitter, it’s bitter in my mouth,
Like the tree of the field;
Like the tree of the field.
יט כִּי-תָצוּר אֶל-עִיר יָמִים רַבִּים לְהִלָּחֵם עָלֶיהָ לְתָפְשָׂהּ, לֹא-תַשְׁחִית אֶת-עֵצָהּ לִנְדֹּחַ עָלָיו גַּרְזֶן–כִּי מִמֶּנּוּ תֹאכֵל, וְאֹתוֹ לֹא תִכְרֹת: כִּי הָאָדָם עֵץ הַשָּׂדֶה, לָבֹא מִפָּנֶיךָ בַּמָּצוֹר.
כ רַק עֵץ אֲשֶׁר-תֵּדַע, כִּי-לֹא-עֵץ מַאֲכָל הוּא–אֹתוֹ תַשְׁחִית, וְכָרָתָּ; וּבָנִיתָ מָצוֹר, עַל-הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר-הִוא עֹשָׂה עִמְּךָ מִלְחָמָה–עַד רִדְתָּהּ.
